Jingchuan "out of the circle", hard core cultural relics witness the remarkable life experience of the history of ethnic religious integration
2022-11-24
On November 17, in the second round of the 2022 China Football Association Cup, Jingchuan Wenhui, a "grassroots" county team from Gansu Province, knocked out the old professional team Beijing Guoan, which became popular. From obscurity to fame in World War I, in addition to Jingchuan Wenhui's football quality and fighting spirit, people began to pay attention to this county-level team and Jingchuan, a low-key and secret town behind it. Jingchuan, named for its location in the hinterland of Jinghe River, is now a small county located in the east of Gansu and at the junction of Shaanxi and Gansu. However, thousands of years ago, Jingchuan had become the cradle of ancient culture, which has been recorded in many ancient books of the Pre Qin Dynasty. As early as the Xia Dynasty, Jingchuan County belonged to Yongzhou; During the Shang Dynasty, Ruan State and the Communist State were established in the county; In the Zhou Dynasty, Jingchuan was set as Beidi Prefecture. This place, called Jingzhou in ancient times, is also the key point of the northern section of the Silk Road. It borders Ningxian County in Gansu Province and Changwu County in Shaanxi Province in the east, Chongxin and Kongtong in the west, Lingtai in the south and Zhenyuan and Xifeng in the north. Since the Han Dynasty, Anding Prefecture, with Jingzhou as the center, has become the prefecture seat of many dynasties. Since ancient times, it has been the first important town from Chang'an in the west to the Western Regions. It is also a place where Buddhism spread from east to west and monks come and go. Over thousands of years, it has experienced the migration, integration and trade exchanges of many ethnic groups. Map of Jingchuan County. In addition to the grottoes with a hundred mile long corridor in Jingchuan, which witnessed the introduction of Buddhism into China, three times more relics were unearthed in Jingchuan than in China, making it a unique historical site in China. Grottoes, ancient tombs, inscriptions on tablets... These cultural relics highlight the distinctive regional culture represented by the West Queen Mother culture and Buddhist culture in Jingchuan, and more vividly reflect the folk wisdom and prosperity of the land where many ethnic groups blend and cherish each other. The legend carved from the stone is along the two banks of the Jinghe River in Jingchuan. The hundred mile long grotto corridor composed of 512 grottoes and five holes of grottoes is the largest existing site on the ground after the Silk Road left Chang'an in the west. It is also a mirror of harmony, prosperity and civilization in Jingchuan, reflecting the history of the entire Silk Road. The distribution of grotto temples in Jingchuan County. The long corridor of hundred mile grottoes starts from the grottoes of Queen Mother's Palace on the Huishan Mountain. Back to the mountain, the Jinghe River is on the left, the Ruihe River is on the right, and the Queen Mother Palace is on the top of the mountain. The Chinese nation is the result of the integration of many ancient ethnic groups. Many ancient tribes are no longer there, but the outstanding figures in their tribes have paid tribute to the temple with gods and people, and passed it on from generation to generation, leaving the Chinese nation's custom of respecting ancestors. The Queen Mother of the West is one of the gods for people to worship and sacrifice. The Classic of Mountains and Seas once recorded that in ancient China, there was a divine man named Queen Mother of the West, who was "shaped like a man, with leopard's tail and tiger's teeth, and his hair was crowned with victory". The Queen Mother of the West can express the meaning of the Emperor of Heaven, cultivate all things and help people live. During the Yuanfeng period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West was built in Jingchuan, becoming the earliest and largest ancestral temple of the Queen Mother of the West in China. Later, it underwent several renovations. At present, the "Grottoes of Queen Mother Palace" we see are Buddhist statues rebuilt during the Northern Wei Dynasty, also known as "Buddha Cave". The Buddha Cave is about 11 meters high, 14 meters wide and 11 meters deep. It is a central tower style building. On the central tower column and the walls of the cave, there are all stone carvings and decorations. There are white elephants, thousand Buddhas, warriors, bodhisattvas and other images carrying the pagoda,
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